We had a business near my old house outside of Baltimore called Value City Furniture. It was an anchor store in an outdoor strip mall that had originally been an indoor mall. Like, the indoor mall was all closed-up and off-limits and if you went up to a window, it looked like an apocalyptic wasteland but the side facing the street had been repurposed. Anyway, Value City was huge – like the size of a Macy’s or something but filled up with crappy furniture and floor lamps and panther statues and the like.
So one day, I was driving buy and Value City had a CLOSED sign on it and there was garbage in the parking lot and I was like “Well, that’s how it goes in this economy…” But months later, I was driving through the alley next to the store, so I could get to the hardware store next door and discovered that Value City was still operating out of its own basement while the first and second floors were closed up and desolate. It was pretty weird to discover that they had been there the whole time.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link